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Harri

2 years

My favourite thing to do as a doctor is conspire with the nurse in charge to have a patient’s dog come and visit them on the ward and today I got to do that once more ☺️☺️☺️

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Harri

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2 years

Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers. Sounds like 200,000 young people just got on the housing ladder! 🙃🎉

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1 year

A domestic has found the little room with a fold out chair that we sleep in on breaks on nights and has started making it up with fresh sheets every day, and honestly it’s done more to make me feel like a valued employee than anything else this week. I even got a towel tonight!!

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2 years

gave a small boy some hot buttered NHS toast last night and he was genuinely happier than 90% of people are when I hand them their newborn baby. life goals

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1 year

@activevirtues Why did the parents need to be told anything at all of it was someone her own age?? That’s some punitive homophobic staff right there.

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2 years

Bank holiday weekend has coincided with the first hot weekend of the year, so in peak NHS all the radiators are on full blast and can’t be turned off. Parts of the hospital are so hot we’ve had to close them. Absolutely classic.

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1 year

There’s a gap today that no locum filled, so I am carrying both bleeps and doing the work of two people. For free. Because they won’t pay me the locum money because I’m already at work. So what’s the incentive for the trust to fill it? (Haven’t had a break yet…)

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2 years

Can people please stop replying to this with stuff about Netflix’s business model I literally do not care about Netflix I just like making jokes on the internet

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1 year

Delighted to find I am the root of all evil for this tweet - Twitter, you never fail to amaze me. Never actually got to rest during that 12.5 hour shift so hitting that mute button and off to my real bed. Ciao 👋😴

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1 year

@LiangRhea Ooh that’s a fab idea! Thank you

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3 months

Everyone will be thrilled to know that my HMRC expenses claim for buying a new stethoscope (£90) because a child broke mine was rejected as it’s not a necessary expense 🙃 #medtwitter

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@Harrii_W

4 years

good to know covid 19 has agreed not to be spread by airborne droplets on public transport until the 15th of June. So helpful having a nice cooperative pandemic.

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Also gave the same child a piggyback and some dinosaur stickers on their star chart. Some very intense paediatricianing going on this week!

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@Harrii_W

3 years

@greggentry1 @ben_benjamin3 @goulcher Colchicine (anti gout drug) comes from the stamens of the autumn crocus. The ancient Greeks knew this and used it. How tf?? 'ah Dave's got a sore red toe. Give him loads of flower bits?'

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1 year

@ANorthernNicola Wow!! Now there’s a treasure of a human being 🤗

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1 year

Two shite days in a row in the NHS. Burst into tears at the end of today’s shift. Constant emails offering 3x the salary for doing literally anything else. Maybe I’m just a mug for staying - I don’t know many others who have…

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1 year

SHO long day tomorrow needed. I said I would do it for escalated rates (as am between 2 long runs of shifts and worth ££!). They’ve declined, no one else is free, so the shift is unfilled. Having been that jr, I know that means 1 SHO doing 2 jobs. No repercussions for the Trust??

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1 year

Lunchtime teaching is not the same as having a break. You should be able to eat your actual lunch separately, not go straight back to more work.

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1 year

Unpopular opinion. NHS edition. Go.

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2 years

@deliman1933 Wow, hadn’t thought of discharging patients - do you think we should try it?? 🤦 we use home leave from ward wherever possible ie patient is safe and stable. This one ain’t. The dog is part of my treatment plan. Butt out.

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2 years

@matthewbowker Me to any wailing neonate <7 days old: ‘oh man, worst [day of the week] ever!’ Success rate: one mum ever, who 1 min later shouted ‘OMG BECAUSE IT’S HIS ONLY MONDAY EVER!!’

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2 years

Our rota is 2.5 drs short (bc they didn't fill the gaps), which means we're on min staffing every shift. Have been told we can only take annual leave when we are adequately staffed without you, which is basically never - certainly not multiple days in a row. WWYD? #medtwitter

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2 years

@matthewbowker *when resuscitaire beeps because the heater’s been on too long* ‘ah, that’s the baby cooked’ 95% success. An all round crowd pleaser.

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2 years

@Kingwolf84 @ShehabKhan Kind of sounds like European values have prevailed given that it was the European court of human rights that stopped it…

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@Harrii_W

8 years

I'm in @Topshop and the song playing has the chorus 'you're just a fool with money to burn'. I didn't come here for a character analysis pal

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@Harrii_W

1 year

@ClaaareKirwan As a student in Glasgow we used to get severely shouted at if we tried to rescue any of the lavish spreads of sandwiches and exotic fruits (in winter!) in the education centre - all binned in front of us instead.

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@bealelab @doctor_oxford I can see a pre-existing scratch on the bottom corner of the armour - thus you can’t justify saying that cannonballs pose a threat to *all* individuals and should be avoided. I’ll get hit by a cannonball if I want, it’s my choice!

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2 years

@_banandra Colleague of mine when telling a relative that the patient had gone to ICU: ‘she’s in a better place now’ 😬😬😬😬😬

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@Harrii_W

11 months

£35/hr for A&E SHO nights??? Who is stupid enough to take these shifts

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@Harrii_W

3 years

@cadoganhealthc1 @Parody_RCGP We don’t want perks, we want the basics. Fair pay, respect from employers, being able to get your wedding off, safe staffing, a culture of learning and improving. And we really really want enough nurses - pay them much more and pay ITU nurses as specialists.

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2 years

@rohana_mir Was told a story about a patient refusing treatment from ‘foreign’ doctors. Cons went round everyone in team - all said ‘I’m German/Spanish/Aus, sorry I can’t treat you’. Got to last one - firm handshake and big smile ‘Hi mate, I’m Mohammed, from Bradford, I’ll be your dr!!’ 🤣

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@ollieburtonmed Your consultant says ‘start antibiotics’ and leaves for theatre, where they will be uncontactable for 6 hours. Figure out the indication, antibiotic, dose, route and duration. Bonus points if they also tell you to ‘phone micro’ but not what the question is.

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Camped on the Isle of Jura watching an otter play in the bay outside my tent. As Saturday nights go, this one’s a banger ✌️🥰

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@DrAndrewV2 @AutisticCallum_ I can inform you that it means they are very angry and they want you to apologise tearfully. (I tested a lot of hypotheses to get to this conclusion 😅😬 it sounds like it means they want to hear your side of the story - how refreshing! - but actually that will make things worse)

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@Harrii_W

1 year

Resus officer just told a room full of paediatric registrars that children are basically small adults 🫠🤯🤣

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@Harrii_W

7 years

Since when was being anti-racism & -sexism a radical political stance, not a basic principle on which the whole Parliament agrees?! #Bercow

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@DrWillWatson @matthewbowker Ooh yes. If I ever have to explain to someone >75 that the problem is due to age I say ‘when one gets to your age - that is, your late twenties...’ goes down a storm!!

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@liambarker One time I found out on the news that my entire hospital had been on lockdown for hours as they were expecting it to be attacked by gunmen (murderous patient with vendetta and connections!) and we’d been so busy we hadn’t even noticed.

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@Harrii_W

10 months

Recently found out that the general public don’t realise we have to buy our own stethoscopes. So, for those people: I need a new one because a child broke mine. The cheapest price I can find is £90. 🫠

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@Harrii_W

1 year

@fatima_medic Ok! Byeeeee! Hope you can do your own medical care next time you need it, we’ll be on the beach 🏖️ 🦘

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@ollieburtonmed You are called to cross cover vascular because the FY1 has moved to Australia. The nurse asks you to see double amputee Dot, age 107, who has smoked since birth. She’s breathing irregularly and grey. You phone the consultant, who tells you coldly that Dot is for full escalation.

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2 years

@Lucy_Ellen_ When I review a newborn with crumbs on its head and a blissed out mother I know she’s been well looked after 🤣🥰

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3 years

@laguiri @greggentry1 @ben_benjamin3 @goulcher YO thank you for this knowledge!! I've been puzzling over this for years!

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1 year

@docrobperry Aw!! (Can confirm Aberdeen JHO jobs haven’t changed but glad something wonderful came out of yours!)

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1 year

@DrRJWebb Spotted that 😄 next step maybe some story books?

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Filling in MSF. This person makes the worst cup of tea I’ve ever had. I’m not fully convinced the teabag ever enters the water and then it’s pure white with milk. Should I mention it??

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@Harrii_W

3 years

Can’t decide whether waiting in a call queue of 10 to speak to a receptionist gives me perspective and empathy or I want GP receptions to add a ‘press 4 if you’re a hospital doctor calling about work stuff’ option... (was phoning from ICU to find a NOK contact number and PMHx)

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@Harrii_W

1 year

Posted my #BMABallotReady ballot. Of the ~40 people I was pally with in my year at medical school when we graduated in 2019, I am one of *three* left in the NHS - everyone else has gone to Australia/NZ for better pay and working conditions. We can't just keep haemorrhaging staff.

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@Harrii_W

2 years

My funding application for an ultrasound machine for paeds and neonates dept was declined because ‘we’d have to train people to use it and the anaesthetists always bring theirs when we ask them to try’. Sorry @Jopo_dr 🙃

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@Harrii_W

1 year

@Milyviemum Must say in Scotland I always slept (or rather, didn’t) upright in broken spinny chairs that you couldn’t lean back on. England has been a revelation so far in that regard.

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1 year

My sister is an NHS dentist in London. Today she had 23 patients booked in, of whom 14 failed to turn up. They get two texts and a phone call in the 48hrs before the appointment and most get free treatment. Just why, when so many people - even children - can't register at all??

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2 years

Yaroooo first choice paeds! Peak District hills, you're mine!!

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2 years

@Chrissox They had Shetland ponies on the geriatrics ward in Glasgow when I was there!

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3 years

@ward8sfinest @CanuckManMD Seen in GP: mother brings 12yo daughter - every few weeks she has had PV bleeding and tummy pain. This has gone on for three months, a few days each time. Doc what could it be?!

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1 year

@terrymccorry 😂

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3 years

@thefourthcraw @GalensGhost C) Ask the canary to deliver a lecture entitled ‘Surviving the mine! Tips for new canaries’ to the next batch being sent down

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2 years

@bdjansenphd Sources that looked really great but you could only read half the abstract because the rest was behind a paywall: works unrequited

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@Harrii_W

2 years

@arianna_kaye @matthewbowker Was quite pleased with today’s ‘go on then, since it’s your birthday’ addressed to 2hr old infant. That one’s getting added to regular rotation. 😆 hope these babies appreciate my efforts!

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4 years

@roselyddon Men, once again, disappointing the nation

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2 years

@9Nylon Bastard! I have been completely deleted off papers twice (both important ones that I made a sig contribution to). Not the only thing that put me off research but certainly a big contributor to my impression of it as thankless. It’s also really awkward to explain at interviews...

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1 year

My boyfriend is an engineer and not from the UK. Asked him to make me a cup of tea for the first time, gave no instructions or supervision. He set a timer to make sure he steeped the teabag for exactly 5 mins because I said that was the right duration once, months ago 🥺🥰

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7 months

@doctor_dru_ Wow! I’ve never forgotten the GP who referred me a child with very mild croup on pure gut feeling. Kid came in doing cartwheels. 10 mins after getting onto the ward, his airway suddenly collapsed. GP saved his life. Wish I’d been able to tell him he was right!

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@Harrii_W

1 year

@ro44466117 @rahttled_doc @ProfKatieEwer @SteveBarclay @RoshanaMN Love for the job doesn’t pay the bills. I can’t afford to have kids, I’m too badly paid and have too much student debt. We are highly trained professionals with an exceptional level of responsibility and pay £1000s in compulsory fees per year. Why am I paid the same as a barista?

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3 years

@roisinamcc The way I see it, I’m not going to teach them any medicine they don’t know, but I can teach them how to work the label printer and find the staffroom!

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2 years

@ollieburtonmed You are seeing Ernie, 86, in A&E. He’s pretty delirious. You want to speak to his daughter, who he says is his NOK, but there’s no number on the system and he forgets her married name. He says he gave his phone to her to look after. It’s a bank holiday Monday. Track her down.

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@Harrii_W

3 years

@greggentry1 @laguiri @ben_benjamin3 @goulcher Ooh I'm gonna settle in for some excellent bedtime reading!

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@Harrii_W

4 years

@MatthewFDonald @Askrigglad er..... we are not on furlough.... I'm just finishing up working an 83 hour week???

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1 year

I own a house, and my house has a pond, and in my pond there is a frog and her frogspawn!! I have achieved my dreams

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1 year

@Dr_DeanS ‘If you don’t like it, leave’ well here’s the funny thing

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4 years

@MatthewFDonald @Askrigglad if only I'd read this guy's tweets on Monday am. I could have told all 20 of my covid patients that the pandemic is over and explained that they should pull themselves together and go home! That would have saved me so many heartrending 'breaking bad news' convos this week too.

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5 years

@manwhohasitall Make it BLUE. Men only want blue things and men’s things can only be blue. This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. Also make it slightly more expensive than the women’s one (justified by labelling ‘shaped for the male anatomy’), but significantly lower quality.

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@Harrii_W

7 years

Now THESE are good birthday cards! @EverydaySexism @LetToysBeToys @grahamandre

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1 year

Ta all for the support, muting this as the anti NHS weirdos have arrived and I try not to think about work on days off 👋

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@Harrii_W

5 months

@TVRJDC @ivymycin @BucksHealthcare A PA who is still going to need someone to prescribe and to request ionising radiation for them… someone like, say, an FY1? Bonkers.

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Rota coordinator has asked me to cover my own shift that I’m off sick for. Anyway we are all individuals and not just numbers or rota fodder here!

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2 years

Muting this cus too many replies. Solidarity to any other NHS staff working this weekend, particularly if you’re now a puddle with some scrubs on top x

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@Harrii_W

12 years

@hpotterquotes http://t.co/Y1Td37KU

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2 years

@LisaJaneMarsh Never had anyone want to see their cat that much 🤷

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2 years

Gorgeous gorgeous girls stand over the tray of garlic and rosemary roast potatoes at 21:45 adding more salt and eating them with a fork... right?

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Me: I'll just meet someone I'm sure, going looking is silly :) Also me: carries out only solitary pursuits in the remotest areas possible or stays at home; probably wouldn't date anyone who I met unexpectedly in my house or tent

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@Harrii_W

7 years

TBH I would feel kind of insulted if I were a male victim of rape and MRAs used that trauma to bully ppl who wanted to help into silence

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@Harrii_W

2 years

Been preparing to move to new town for ST rotation for some months now. Email fortnight before starting: ‘we might change your post location depending on rota’. No further update since. I’m moving in 10 days and now don’t know to where so can’t rent etc. WTF???

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7 years

@bbcthree Leo is already a man. He's not choosing whether or not to be one. Hire actual trans people to write for u so u stop getting basics wrong.

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1 year

@dr_emmacoombe Ooh good point, I forgot about exception reporting. Will do.

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3 years

@geordie_medic The trust spent the past 7 years telling us that around the neck lanyards are BANNED in clinical areas due to infection control. At the start of a global pandemic, the trust issued all members of staff with an around the neck lanyard to be worn in all clinical areas. 🤔📿🧠

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1 year

Ahh, no better start to the day than being added to a WhatsApp group by a rota coordinator using the phone number you only gave them on the ‘in case of emergency’ form 🙃

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2 years

@exerciseworks That is lovely. One of my favourite things is doing things like that for patients. You think it doesn’t matter but it does, and you can put so much care into a little tray 🥰

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6 years

When u pass someone who's coloured in their eyebrows to match their vivid hair and u KNOW they a @gothfruits follower

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1 year

@zackferguson You have to stop posting these because the first half always takes me in 🤡

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2 years

I’ve got it!!! Just collected from my lovely local Waterstones. What a treat! @JayHulmePoet

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2 years

@dibqop @Lucyvfreeman ........ are you sure the end of the friendship was not because her husband had a naked shower with an 8yo??

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3 years

@KeldenFormosa @AmyAddante @missfloratang I'm an LGBT Christian and I think abortion is a vital aspect of healthcare! I'm very grateful to have this service available to me should I ever need it.

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1 year

12yo me reckoned I would have a job, house and have found the one by about age 27. That was all looking like a plan in tatters on my 27th birthday last spring but now I’m 27 and 3/4 and I think I have all three???? The manifesting

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3 years

@davescounty @xyzachh One of the main reasons cited for leaving HGV driving is long hours and no time with family... so, er, yeah it probably would!

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2 years

@redshiftsinger @DrAndrewV2 @AutisticCallum_ Yes same. Was always taught that if you were saying sorry you had to mean it. Well, I don’t mean it and I’m not sorry so I’m not saying it!!!

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5 months

@zackferguson The other third have already moved to Australia

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2 years

@NadiaKamil Filipino nurses are absolutely fantastic! Always caring, conscientious and extremely capable.

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2 years

@Complicateditis Also the IV caffeine for the babies.

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3 years

@enkidu97 @ward8sfinest @CanuckManMD to this day one of the weirdest consultations I have ever had!!

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2 years

@Dr_KM_ Big vibes of the consultant anaesthetist in my ICU job who put 6g of Mg in a bag of saline and just ran it in with a completely neutral, perhaps even bored, expression on his face. Big Anaesthetist Energy.

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2 years

Homeowner!! 🥳🥳🥳

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